BACKGROUND Peritoneal seeding after abdominal surgery is a well known route of metastasis in intra-abdominal solid tumours. Direct mechanical contamination, local peritoneal trauma and subsequent inflammation, postoperative immunosuppression, and laparoscopic surgery are the proposed predisposing factors for this type of metastasis. These factors probably result in enhanced adhesion or growth o...

INTRODUCTION The approach to the abdominal wall surgical repair is dramatically changed in the last years. This study evaluates our institutional outcomes about the usage of biological meshes for abdominal wall repair in different setting: in elective surgery, in emergency surgery and in abdominal wall repair following open abdomen (OA) procedure. METHODS A database was prospectively conducte...

Sclerosing mesenteritis is a rare pathology with only a few described cases in the literature. The etiology is unclear; however, several potential triggers, including abdominal surgery and abdominal trauma, have been discussed. The pathology includes a benign acute or chronic inflammatory process affecting the adipose tissue of the mesenterium. Despite it being a rare disease, sclerosing mesent...

Role of minimal access surgery is uncertain in emergency abdominal surgery. The objective of this review article is to explore the role of laparoscopy in various acute abdominal conditions requiring operative intervention.

background: mesocolic hernias are extremely rare. their exact incidence is still unknown. the clinical features are nonspecific and range from bilious vomiting and chronic abdominal pain exacerbated by meals, to asymptomatic presentations incidentally discovered during surgery. preoperative diagnosis still is difficult in spite of imaging techniques currently available. case report: in this stu...